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The word 'meent'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
meentOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.2235
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 58.9 18 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 36.3 2 1

Occurrences of meent in Corpus

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Shetland

Peterson, George P.S. Nannie Georgedaughter, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, prose
alf a wink, an I kent at shö meent me ta gie dis ale ta poor Hun
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
's nae fit Ah'm sayin. Fit Ah meent wis, dinna set yer sichts owe on page 48
elievin in Goad: weel, he wis meent te ken an see aathin, bit he on page 65
uttin oot o er purse. "Ah wis meent te phone aboot some furnitir on page 71
skin. "Folk fae Buchan ir nae meent te bi broon - it's nae natra on page 81
"Ah'm surely jist nae meent te bi glamorous," she said, t on page 84

5 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
s muckle hoose aat wis ayewis meent fir a faimly. Ah think Ah'll on page 22
"He mebbe meent 'in the dark'," jokit Stevie. on page 58
the wird Ah'm lookin fir. Ah meent...Ah meent ye're a lookalikie on page 61
somethin bad - somethin aat meent Ah hid te bide awa fae Missus on page 63
lt bad cause Ah kent fit deed meent. 'Deed' meent ye war nivver g on page 67
Also on pages 76
9 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
e they thocht iss parable wis meent for them. Sae they keepit an on page 113

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Recyclin's meent a lot o wirk, Bit it's garred on page 34
"Ah jist meent at... weel, it's nae affa att on page 37
t im. "I can myn fin 'log on' meent haivin anither stick oan the on page 50

3 matches

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
"Na, but I meent-gin ye please, can we bide an on page 73

1 matches

General Central

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 67 - review, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
owersettins, whaur plays wes meent tae be. on page 109

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
wur feart tae ax hïm whut he meent. on page 86
follaers thïs parable, that meent that the' shud aye pray an no on page 99

2 matches

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